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The article discusses a court case wherein the plaintiff, the residents of Lago Agrio (LAP) of the Ecuadorian Amazon region, sued the defendant Chevron Corp. for alleged environmental damage and pollution of the region during its oil extraction operation. The Ecuadorian trial court found Chevron liable for damages worth 17.2 billion dollars on February 14, 2011. The District Court, however, has granted Chevron a global anti-enforcement injunction which enforced the company's claim against LAP.

The article looks at litigation over environmental damage associated with petroleum company Chevron's operations in Ecuador, reporting on a 2014 ruling by U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan against the plaintiffs. It notes the plaintiffs, represented by attorney Steven Donziger, had previously won a judgment against Chevron in an Ecuadorean court. Chevron's use of the U.S. Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act is discussed.

The article discusses U.S. federal judge Lewis Kaplan's regarding an Ecuadorian court's judgment against oil company Chevron in a civil case led by U.S. lawyer Steven Donziger was "obtained by corrupt means," as of March 2014. Topics include the alleged environmental damages for the Lago Agrio oilfield area of the Amazon by Texaco, which Chevron bought in 2001, Kaplan's claims of fraudulent evidence, and Donziger's plans to appeal.

This article reports on a temporary stay of the judgment obtained by Chevron Corp. from a New York court in 2011. The judgment blocked a ruling by a provincial court in Lago Agrio, Ecuador, ordering the company to pay nearly 18 billion U./S. dollars in fines and remediation expenses for environmental damages to the Amazon River. The lawsuit accused the company of improperly disposing chemical-laden wastewater in the river from 1964 to 1992.

The article reports on another victory of energy company Chevron Corp. in 2015 regarding the lawsuit filed by the Ecuadorian government for the alleged environmental damage caused by the company in the Amazon region. Topics discussed include the settlement signed between Chevron and litigation services firm H5, the allegations against Chevron's role in the oil spills in the Amazon, and the implications of the fraudulent activity of Steven Donziger, the lead lawyer behind the lawsuit.

Comments on the billion-dollar lawsuit filed in a United States District Court by a group of indigenous Ecuadorian tribes against Texaco. Claims made by the tribes against Texaco; Texaco's efforts to dispute the claims; Significance of the case for movements to prosecute environmental injustices.

The article discusses a complaint sent to the International Criminal Court against oil company Chevron by communities from the Ecuadorian rainforest for crimes against humanity. Topics mentioned include the community's efforts to seek redress for environmental damage and health problems due to oil exploration in Lago Agrio in Ecuador during the 1970s, comments from human rights lawyer Douglas Cassel on the complaint, and a history of environmental lawsuits filed against other oil companies.

The article discusses the October 5, 2013 testimony of former Ecuadorian judge Nicolás Zambrano Lozada in a U.S. Federal Court in New York City about his 19 billion dollar judgment in a 2011 environmental civil case against oil company Chevron in Lago Agrio, Ecuador. Chevron sued the Educadorian plaintiffs' legal team including U.S. Attorney Steven Donziger under the U.S. Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) on allegations of bribery, extortion, and obstruction of justice.

The article reports on the setback suffered by energy corporation Chevron Corp. in its legal battle over environmental damage in Ecuador after Judge Lewis Kaplan of the U.S. District Court barred the Ecuadorean plaintiffs from pursuing the company's assets outside of Ecuador. It says that the preliminary order overturned the 18 billion U.S.-dollar verdict obtained from the country. It adds that the court ordered Chevron to submit a bond of 21.8 million U.S. dollars.

The article focuses on the opposition of Rafael Correa, Ecuador's President, toward Chevron Texaco Corp.'s failure to clean up damage done to the country's Amazon region. Correa criticized the company's ecological crimes while leading journalists on a tour of the oil pit operation that Chevron ran from the 1960s through the 1990s and where the company's subsidiary dumped an estimated 18 billion gallons of oily wastewater. Ecuadorian and North American environmentalists, led by the organization AmazonWatch, have been working for more than a decade to compel Chevron to pay for cleaning up the former drilling site near the town of La Victoria. In 2003, the campaigners launched a lawsuit against the firm in Ecuador.